[Vision2020] William F Buckley Jr.

[Tom Hansen]

Buckley threatens to punch Chomsky in the face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEIrZO069Kg

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

> Ted
> I hadn't heard that about Chomskey. He  did threaten to punch Gore 
Vidal, after Vidal
called hiim a Nazzi. He imediatly regreted it.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:21:46 -0800
> To: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] William F Buckley Jr.
> 
> > William F. Buckley once threatened to punch Noam Chomsky in the face on
> > "Firing Line" when Chomsky appeared as a guest.  This is shown in 
Chomsky's
> > film, "Manufacturing Consent."
> > 
> > Having said that, I miss "Firing Line," and I respected Buckley's 
principled
> > and eloquent conservatism.  He publicly stated that the Iraq War was a
> > failed policy, and opposed the war on drugs.  Many think these 
positions are
> > "left wing."  Yet I think that both the Iraq War and the war on drugs
> > promote a "liberal" big government/big spending approach, that should
> > inspire intense skepticism from anyone who advocates a general policy 
that
> > big government intrusive tax payer burdening solutions to problems are 
to be
> > avoided if possible.
> > 
> > I'm surprised by how many so called conservatives continue to insist 
that
> > the invasion of Iraq was not a mistake, as the costs of the Iraq 
occupation
> > climb hundreds of billions upon hundreds of billions of dollars, and 
world
> > wide terrorism continues, in part inspired by hatred of the USA,
> > for occupying Islamic nations.
> > 
> > William F. Buckley writing on the Iraq War at URL below:
> > 
> > http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley200602241451.asp
> > 
> > CIA Bin Laden analyst Michael Scheuer on YouTube regarding Ron Paul's 
wise
> > foreign policy views on the war on terror:
> > 
> > CIA Michael Scheuer Binladin Expert: Only Ron Paul Gets It
> > 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOqXdbe7CVM
> > 
> > ------------------------
> > Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
> > 
> > On 2/27/08, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:13 AM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Flags should be flown at half mast today. William F. Buckley died 
this
> > > morning at 82.
> > >
> > > I love William F. Buckley, but do you really think that he is such an
> > > American icon that he merits flags at half-mast?
> > >
> > > I wonder, is there any official, designating criterion for this 
honor?
> > >
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